REPUBLIC OF CAMEROUN Paix-Travail-Patrie MINISTERE DES FINANCES DIRECTION GENERALE DES DOUANES
REPUBLIC OF CAMEROUN Peace-Work-Fatherland MINISTRY OF FINANCE DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF CUSTOMS
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New Customs Measures of the 2025 Finance Law
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# INTRODUCTION
Major place: national economy, implementing public policy and promoting development
CUSTOMS FACILITIES: New Companies/Existing Companies
Economic Disaster Zones Decree n° 2019/3179/PM of 02.09.2019 Law n° 2013/004 of 18 April 2013
SOUTH-WEST REGION
Procedure: IPA/APRE Pre-validation by the SIGF of the investment programme/list of imports
Customs incentives for promoting private investment
# INTRODUCTION
15 Companies enjoying facilities under the Economic Disaster Zones (EDS) regime: LAURENTEX, COMMUNITY FARMS, BOBDIDY DIGITAL, DASH INSPECTORATE, PAMOL, YAHVE BIOLIFE, CARE PHARMA, PRISTINE SASU, ECOSTELL, MOLAND BEACH, CDBM, SHEE SYSTEM, HARMONY, COLLECTIF DES IMPORTATEURS, AZATA-ALU, NZUDIE, RMIE, SOUTH WEST CONSTRUCTION
10 Companies in the South-West Region enjoying facilities under the 2013 law: NABCO, METROPOLITAN PLASTIC, SOD, SELOCO, LEDLUX SARL, MOUNGO FISH, KRIEGER BREWERY, CADYST FARMING, LE MENN PAPER CONVERTING, etc Tax and customs incentives for advanced processing of raw materials
TAX EXPENDITURES: EDS, 3,74 billions 2013 law: 3, 43 billions.
# OPENING REMARKS: BACKGROUND TO THE NEW MEASURES
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- Impact of international crises on the supply chain;
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- Continued application of a 60% reduction on the dutiable value of imported refined petroleum products to reduce subsidies on petrol prices at the pump;
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- Increase of tax expenditures to support investment and implementation of preferential trade : 2013 private Investment incentives law, EPA CAMEROON EU/UK, AfCFTA.
OPENING REMARKS: NEW MEASURES OBJECTIVES
- Support the economy, Import - substitution
- Improving the social climate and the business environment
- Protecting the national ecological heritage and promoting green energy
- strengthening of the budgetary space
- Fight customs fraud and illicit trafficking
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# SUPPORT FOR THE ECONOMY AND PROMOTION IMPORT-SUBSTITUTION POLICY
IMPORT-SUBSTITUTION BONUS EFFECT
- Tax and customs incentives/Redressing national vulnerabilities
- Increase the local stock and supply of Consumer goods
- Limiting the outflow of foreign currency and strengthening the balance of payments equilibrium
IMPORT-SUBSTITUTION MALUS EFFECT
- Reverse the trend of imports
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OBJECTIVES
# 1. ONGOING SUPPORT TO THE LIVESTOCK SECTOR
(Section Five of the 2025 Finance Law).
A 50% reduction on the import dutiable value of “food supplements” (vitamins, amino acids and mineral salts) intended for feed preparations to boost animal growth.
- Improve animal production;
- Reduce production costs;
- Reinforce competitiveness of Cameroonian meat on the local and international markets, notably within the framework of implementation of preferential trade agreements (EPA, AfCFTA, etc.) on the one hand, and the conquest of regional markets (CEMAC and CEEAC).
- reduce imports and strengthen the balances of trade and payments.
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OBJECTIVES
# 2. ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM
(Section Eight of the 2025 Finance Law).
Exclusion of imported goods having similar substitutes produced locally, from any customs facility measure